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Ass, wild, or onagra, 418.

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Colima, volcanic cone, 121 8.htm.html#Page_183" class="pginternal">183, note;

uses, 184, note;

value of, in France, in 1838, ib., note.

Isatis fox, 427.

Islands, their relative extent to that of the continents, 38;

• classification of, 139.

Isothermal lines, 258.

Itambe, mountain, height of, 105.

J.

Jackal, 425.

Jaguar, or American tiger, 428.

Jamaica, its area, 117;

• mountains, ib.;
• extent of coast, 118;
• temperature, ib.

Jan Mayen’s Land, 164.

Japan, flora of, 321.

Japanese, 437.

Java, volcanos of, 149;

• height of volcanic mountains, ib.;
• destruction of a mountain in 1772, ib.;
• character of the coast, ib.;
• “Valley of Death,” 153.

Jebel Houra, 82.

Jebel Okkdar, height of, 82.

Jewish population of Europe, 442.

Johnston, Mr. Keith, his Physical Atlas, 5; 43, note.

Jordan, valley of, its fertility, 84;

• its depression, ib.

Jordan, river, 247.

Jorullo, volcanic cone, its sudden appearance, 121.

Jukes, Mr., his description of the rolling of the billows along the great Australian barrier-reef, 146.

Jura, elevation of, 50.

K.

Kailas Peak, 249.

Kalmuks, 437.

Kamichi, a gallinaceous bird, 407.

Kamtchatka, flora of, 315.

Kangaroo, 434.

Kangaroo rat, 434.

Kelat, elevation of, 58.

Kerguelen’s Land, vegetation of, 355.

Keyserling, Count, 67, note.

Khing-han mountains, 59.

Kiang, wild ass of Tibet, 419.

Kingfishers, 398.

Kinkajou, the, 428.

Kirawah, volcano of, 151;

• eruption in 1834, ib.

Kirghiz, steppes of, 75.

Koko-nor lake, 250.

Kombst’s ethnographic map, 443, note.

Kosciusko, mount, height of, 137.

Kourdistan mountains, 56.

Kuen-lun (or Chinese) mountains, 59.

Kurile Islands, volcanic vents of, 151.

L.

Laccadive Archipelago, 145.

Ladak, 317.

Ladoga, lake of, 124;

southern desert, ib.;

marshes, ib.;

the Grand Saline, ib.;

prairies, ib.;

forests, 125;

[Upper Valley of the, 126, 177;]

new states, 125;

principal lakes, ib.

Mitchell, Mr., on the causes of earthquakes, quoted, 155.

Mongol Tartar races, 437.

Mongolia, its situation, 60;

• little known, 69.

Monitor, genus of reptiles, 389;

• fossil, 390.

Monkeys, American, 428;

• African, 425.

Monocotyledonous plants, 306.

Monsoons, 266.

Mont Blanc, its height, 49;

• quantity of ice on, 52.

Moon, the, its influence on, and distance from the earth, 15;

• its perturbations show the compression at the poles, ib.;
• inequality in its motions produced by matter at the earth’s equator, 17, note.

Moon, the, mountains of, 88.

Moorcroft, Mr., elevation of the sacred lake Manasa, 67.

Moose-deer, or elk, 425.

Moraines, 52.

Mosasaurus, 390, note.

Moscow, height of, 73.

Mosquito, the, 365.

Mountains, forms of, 41;

• their declivity, 42;
• contemporaneous upheaval of parallel mountain-chains, 43;
• interruptions in, 45;
• table of the heights of the principal mountains of the globe, 475.

Mountain-chains, assumed form of, 129, note;

• a barrier to insects, 364.

Mouflon, 416.

Mowna Roa mountain, 269.

M’Quhae, Capt., 382.

Murchison, Sir Roderick J., on the geology of the Altai chain, 66;

• observations on Siberia, 67, note;
• researches in the Ural mountains, 72;
• on the geology of Northern Europe, 77.

Museum, British, improved state of, 462.

Museum, of Practical Geology, 463.

Museum, Hunterian, 463.

Musk-deer, Moschus, 420.

Musk-ox, 427.

Musk-rat, or musquash, 427.

Mycetus, or Beelzebub monkey, 429.

Mysore, table-land of, height, 80;

• soil, ib.

Myvatr, 365.

N.

Narwhals, or Monoceros, 379.

Negro tribes, 438.

Nejed, ginternal">396.

Slave-lake, 252.

Slave-trade, its evil effects, 459.

Sleet, nature of, 283.

Smyth, Captain, R. N., report of soundings, 46, note.

Snae Braen, area of, 70.

Snow, how produced, 278;

• form of its crystals, 279.

Snow-line, its height on mountains in different latitudes, 279.

Solar system, 15, note.

Soudan, 251.

South magnetic pole, its situation, 166.

Senegambia, 89.

South Shetland, vegetation, 352.

South Wales, New character of the country, 137;

• structure, 139.

Spain, its mountains, 47;

• table-land, area of, ib.;
• plants of, 319.

Spiders, numbers of, 367.

Spitzbergen, 160.

Springs, their origin, 209;

• intermittent, 210;
• temperature, 211;
• hot springs, ib.;
• medicinal springs, ib.;
• saline springs, ib.

Squalls, arched, 271.

Squirrels, flying, 422.

Steam-power, amount of, in Great Britain in 1833, 172, note.

St. Elias, Mount, height of, 123.

Stelvio, pass of, its height, 50.

Steppes of Eastern Europe, 74;

• great extent of, ib.;
• climate, ib.;
• soil, ib.;
• atmosphere, 75.

St. Lawrence, river, 12.

Stonefield slate, 26.

Storms, rotatory, 268;

• waves, 270.

Strata, primary fossiliferous, 21;

• Cambrian, 21;
• lower Silurian, ib.;
• upper Silurian, 22;
• secondary fossiliferous, ib.;
• Devonian, ib.;
• carboniferous, 23;
• mountain limestone, ib.;
• magnesian limestone, 24;
• new red sandstone, 25;
• oolite, ib.;
• cretaceous strata, 27;
• tertiary strata, divided by Sir Charles Lyell into Eocene, Miocene, and Pleiocene, 28;
• boulder formation, 32;
• parallel direction of contemporary strata, 43.

Strata, tertiary, of the Alps, height of, 53.

Strachey, Lieut., journeys, 17.

Sudetes, the, 48.

Suez, projected canal of, 461.

Sulphur, diffusion of, 186.

Sumatra, character of the island, 150.

Sumbawa, population of, 438.

Summa Paz, Sierra de la, 16.

Zungary, or Mingolia, its situation, 60.

Zurrah, lake, 248.